Source: TeachingBooks | Author & Book Resources to Support Reading Education
Via: How In The World Am I Just Learning About “Teaching Books”?!
The site has an impressive collection of resources! After sign up you get 2 weeks of full access to everything, to continue after that there are various licensing tiers available.
Resources are divided up by book, subject area, grade level, and more.
Source: Wavemaker, Cross Platform Novel Planning and Writing Software Wavemaker is an only web app designed to help you or your students write books. There are three projects you can start with, and Wavemaker will set up the different chapters for you to jump in and start writing. If that’s all there was to Wavemaker…
Source: Open Peeps, Hand-Drawn Illustration Library Open Peeps is a CC0 licensed graphic library of people. CC0 is the equivalent of Public Domain, meaning you can do whatever you want with the graphics. The site does require an email to download, but you could download the package for your students first. In the Flat Assets folder…
The CARDIAC Instructable presented here is not a computer, it’s a device to help you understand how a computer works. You the user will: decode instructions by sliding panels up and down, move the program counter “lady bug” from one memory location to the next, perform the duties of an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), read…
We live in an age of data visualization. Go to any news website and you’ll see graphics charting support for the presidential candidates; open your iPhone and the Health app will generate personalized graphs showing how active you’ve been this week, month or year. Sites publish charts showing how the climate is changing, how schools are…
Easy Collaboration Tool – Using Neat Chat in Education Today, it seems archaic to think that it would be difficult to communicate with students online. There are so many ways to connect with them outside of school hours and asynchronously. I just learned of one today that I wanted to share with you that reminded…
As part of the White House’s ConnectED initiative Safari Books Online has teamed with O’Reilly Media to offer free access to hundreds of eBooks. To access the books you will need a verified Edmodo or Clever account (I haven’t figured out what they mean by a “personal” log in that is an option). One downside is…